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Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
15 November 2024 to 30 March 2025
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries
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Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
Corinne Jaquand presents “Planning through Landscape, German and French Experiences, 2010 and Backwards” on 29 July, a discussion of select examples of urban renewal in France and Germany in which the landscape project intervenes at the beginning of the planning process. View a complete listing of this summer’s seminars.
Shaughnessy House
Presented in English Keyword(s):
Corinne Jaquand, visiting scholar seminar
29 July 2010
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Corinne Jaquand
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Corinne Jaquand presents “Planning through Landscape, German and French Experiences, 2010 and Backwards” on 29 July, a discussion of select examples of urban renewal in France and Germany in which the landscape project intervenes at the beginning of the planning process. View a complete listing of this summer’s seminars.
Shaughnessy House
Presented in English Keyword(s):
Corinne Jaquand, visiting scholar seminar
5 dessin(s) préliminaire(s)
Plan du stationnement
ARCH199071
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Plan du stationnement; plan de situation et de l'aménagement paysager; plans du sous-sol, du rez-de-chaussée et du premier étage
Plan du stationnement
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Plan du stationnement; plan de situation et de l'aménagement paysager; plans du sous-sol, du rez-de-chaussée et du premier étage
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Victor Landriault fonds
AP111
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Le fonds est principalement constitué de documents photographiques de natures et de formats différents illustrant 12 projets de génie civil et autres constructions au Québec, en Ontario, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à Terre-Neuve, au Sri Lanka et en Algérie réalisés par la compagnie Atlas entre 1948 et 1987. On y retrouve des épreuves noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs et des diapositives. Au total, le nombre de documents photographiques est évalué à 3 553 items qui étaient à l'origine répartis dans 28 albums. Le fonds comprend aussi 139 reproductions de plans (cyanotypes) et des documents textuels se rapportant à quelques-uns des projets. Enfin, plusieurs publications ayant appartenu à Victor Landriault et relatives aux activités de l'entreprise ou aux techniques de construction, ainsi que quelques souvenirs que le donateur a conservés de l'entreprise, viennent compléter le fonds.
1948-1987
Victor Landriault fonds
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Le fonds est principalement constitué de documents photographiques de natures et de formats différents illustrant 12 projets de génie civil et autres constructions au Québec, en Ontario, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à Terre-Neuve, au Sri Lanka et en Algérie réalisés par la compagnie Atlas entre 1948 et 1987. On y retrouve des épreuves noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs et des diapositives. Au total, le nombre de documents photographiques est évalué à 3 553 items qui étaient à l'origine répartis dans 28 albums. Le fonds comprend aussi 139 reproductions de plans (cyanotypes) et des documents textuels se rapportant à quelques-uns des projets. Enfin, plusieurs publications ayant appartenu à Victor Landriault et relatives aux activités de l'entreprise ou aux techniques de construction, ainsi que quelques souvenirs que le donateur a conservés de l'entreprise, viennent compléter le fonds.
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1948-1987
textual records
ARCH209986
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Documents concernant l'aménagement paysager incluant : correspondance, cédule d'honoraires, diazos, brochures, estimations et photographie du Palais de Justice.
Documents concernant l'aménagement paysager incluant : correspondance
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ARCH209986
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Documents concernant l'aménagement paysager incluant : correspondance, cédule d'honoraires, diazos, brochures, estimations et photographie du Palais de Justice.
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
The first biography of one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Cornelia Oberlander and her collaborators. Author Susan Herrington joins Oberlander in conversation about her works and career. The series They want(...)
14 September 2014 , 3pm
Cornelia Oberlander and Susan Herrington want to speak with you
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The first biography of one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Cornelia Oberlander and her collaborators. Author Susan Herrington joins Oberlander in conversation about her works and career. The series They want(...)
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A Story of Encounters
Forces of Friction
research
Visiting Scholars 2005
Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
3 January 2005 to 30 September 2005
Visiting Scholars 2005
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Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
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3 January 2005 to
30 September 2005